It’s not the same as losing your grandparent. It is not the same as any other loss as each loss is different and should never be compared. Your words not only tried to compare but they exposed a sad picture of how our culture views grief. You used losing a pet rabbit as an ...
it felt almost blasphemous to include the word hope in the title. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was caught in the “this is how I will always feel” vortex that comes with profound grief. So much trauma from the past and fear for the future. It took a great leap of fait...
“she was kind of this elusive figure on set because she was with us so briefly, but she comes with a baked-in, unavoidable gravitas,” stewart tells me. “she’s elvis’s grandkid, so obviously we were curious about her. do you know what i mean? and she was really, really—and ...
I haven’t written an update for a while, and to be honest, I’ve been enjoying getting back to normality (and trying to learn how to parent teenagers), with limited success. I think that writing Fanny through my grief and treatment was my way of releasing stress when I had nobody el...
It started out in the most incredible way. Ava was exploring her new cul-de-sac, playing with neighborhood kids, a hint of a cool...
word in Somali for “autism”. Indeed there is nogrey areaas one Somali parent put it. Mental health is seen as either “crazy” or “sane”, and this leads to the fear that a child may be called an unhelpful name within the community. A name used behind the parents’ back [page ...
On this day nine years ago our baby’s heart stopped as we helplessly watched on ultrasound. It was by far the worst day of my life. A day that broke me to my core and divided my life into before and after. Of all the days of my life so far, I have thought about February 8th...